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Yet the use of the phrase ‘even’ reminds the reader of the rarity of such occasions and instead of a ‘ray’ of sunshine there is only the more cautious ‘gleam’. LOWOOD (CHAPTERS 5–10) The Lowood chapters open with Jane readying herself for her departure from Gateshead on the ‘19th of January’. Brontë’s use of a specific date adds an air of realism in line with the fact that the narrative temporarily abandons its Gothic and 40 READING JANE EYRE romantic strands to concentrate on more realist concerns.

LOWOOD (CHAPTERS 5–10) The Lowood chapters open with Jane readying herself for her departure from Gateshead on the ‘19th of January’. Brontë’s use of a specific date adds an air of realism in line with the fact that the narrative temporarily abandons its Gothic and 40 READING JANE EYRE romantic strands to concentrate on more realist concerns. Alongside the continuing tale of Jane’s development, Brontë focuses on the domestic and the day-to-day life of the school and in doing so offers a social commentary on the education of women and religious hypocrisy.

She shows a character buffeted by external and internal forces, often the fate of the Gothic heroine but Jane differs 27 BRONTË’S JANE EYRE from many of them insofar as she arguably masters both by the finish of the novel. Social Comment Novels Around the time of Jane Eyre’s publication, mid-Victorian England was involved in a great deal of discussion about social reform. For instance, a group called the Chartists published a ‘People’s Charter’ in 1838 calling for universal male suffrage and Karl Marx and Frederich Engels completed the Manifesto of the Communist Party (1850) in which they urged the working class to seize power.